after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court.
Thе question before the commissioner in this case was whether, in the language of the treaty of 1842, article X, 8 Stat. 572, 576, there ,was “such evidеnce of criminality as, according to the- laws of the place where the fugitive or person so charged shall be found, would justify his apprehension and commitment for trial if the crime or offence had been there committed.” In other words, whether, aсcording to our laws, there was probable cause,to believe him guilty of the crimes charged. Rev. Stat. § 5270;
Benson
v. McMahon,
*106 The evidence before the commissioner tended to show that Bryant was employed by the firm of Morrison & Marshall of London as bookkeeper and assistant cashier from January .to October, 1896, at a salary of £104 per annum; that he had under his control the cheque books of the firm and the paid cheques returned from the bank, although he was not authorized to sign the firm’s name to cheques; that the firm kept an account with the London officе of the Commercial Bank of Scotland, and that such account was charged with the three following cheques, viz.: June 23, £500; August 14, £500; Septembеr 1, £720; These cheques purported to be drawn on the bank and to be signed by Morrison & Marshall, and were presented for payment by the Provincial Bank of England, and were paid and debited to Morrison & Marshall.
It further appeared that Bryant kept an account with the Prоvincial Bank, in which he deposited on June 22 a cheque for £500; on August 13, a cheque for £500; and on September 9, a cheque for £720, which wеre credited to his account. It appeared that the three cheques paid by the Commercial .Bank were abstraсted from two cheque books which were not in use at the time, and were accessible to Bryant. No entry was made upon the сounterfoils, or, as they are called in this country, the “ stubs,” of the cheque books from which they were taken; nor was any memorandum of such cheques anywhere entered; nor were these cheques among those, received back from the bank in the ordinary wаy.
It further appeared that Morrison & Marshall had a sum exceeding £5000, carried to the credit of a “suspense account ” in their ledgers, with--which account, howevеr, Bryant had no authority to interfere. He did, however, bring a credit of £2000 from such “suspense account” to a fictitious account, whiсh he opened in the ledger in the name of T. H. North. Against this credit of £2000 he debited two items of £780 and £1220. The £780 was posted in the ledger from the сash book, and. consisted of '£280 and the £500 representéd by the first cheque paid June 23. The £1220 was represented by the cheques paid' August 14, £500, and September 10, £720. These amounts Bryant did not carry *107 out in the cash column of the cash book, but in order that the balances of the cash book, ledger and banker’s pass book should agree, he added the sum of £1220 to the total at the bottom of the page, nоtwithstanding that amount was not in the column, nor was there any entry in the cash book relating to the £1220, which could be posled to North’s fictitious account.
Upon this evidence the .appellant contended, first, that there was no testimony before the commissionеr tending to show that he had been guilty of forging the three cheques; second; that if it were shown that he had made false entries upon the books of Morrison & .Marshall,' this would not constitute an offence for which he could be extradited, for the reason that when the treaty of 1842 was executed, the making of false entries was not forgery; third, that as to the additional sum of £280, which the relator was charged with embezzling, there was no evidence of criminality; fourth, that if there were evidence sufficient to hold appellant upon the charge of forgery of the three cheques, he could not be held as for larceny or embezzlement, and that if he were hеld for embezzlement from Morrison & Marshall he could not be also held for obtaining the same money from the bank upon the forged сheques; fifth, that, as he could only be tried for the particular offence for which he is surrendered, the demanding government and the commissioner should have elected, and if the latter deemed the evidence sufficient to commit upon the one chargе, he should not have been committed upon the other.
We think there was legal evidence against the prisoner upon which thе commissioner was authorized to act, and •that is sufficient for the purposes of this case. If it were true that three cheques wеre missing from the cheque books of Morrison & Marshall to which the prisoner had access, and no corresponding memorandа were made on the stubs; that three cheques were presented to the Commercial Bank by a bank' at which the appellant kept a personal account, and this account showed a credit of three cheques, which upon the following day were presented and paid by the *108 Commercial Bank, and that the appellant had no authority to sign cheques for Morrison & Marshall, the inference is at least a reasonable one that these cheques were forged by the .appellant. The commissioner was of opinion that, if the moneys of the firm were not actually obtained by forgery, they were obtained by embezzlement оr larceny, or, at least, there was probable cause to believe that they were so obtained. So long as the prisоner is tried upon the facts which appeared in evidence before the commissioner, and upon the charges or one of the charges for which he is surrendered, it is immaterial whether the indictment against him shall contain counts for forgery, larceny оr .embezzlement. That is a matter of practice with which. we have nothing to do. While the original treaty of 1842 authorized the surrender only for the crime of forgery, or the utterance of forged paper, the supplemental treaty of March 25, 1890, 26 Stat. 1508, included both embezzlement and larceny.
The order of the Circuit Court is
Affirmed.